Through Sunday, October 28th: Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Fireflies on the Water’

The Whitney is open from 11am-6pm this weekend. Arrive early in the day (before they open) to get timed tickets.

Yayoi Kusama’s depictions of seemingly endless space have been a central focus of her artistic career. Kusama’s Fireflies on the Water (2002)—with its carefully constructed environment of lights, mirrors, and water—is one of the outstanding examples of this kind of installation, which creates a space in which individual viewers are invited to transcend their sense of self.